[It's hard to say if Loki will notice or not, but there's a slight cringe at that phrasing. Right. That whole delicate balance between being an Unseelie shardbearer, following a Seelie around the world, and staring down the face of death. He's really in over his head, isn't he?

It's terrible and the irony doesn't escape him but all he wanted in the first place was a choice. And he'd picked a very stupid one and now he had to figure out how to get out of it. So instead of addressing any of that, first thing's first.]

Jason's probably still really mad. I made the choice to go without him and he broke his knife. I haven't talked to him for over a month. [It's a little easier to see he's pouting a bit.] I thought this was the right thing. I think even the monarchs are a little scared of Shuck and I still think Morla would understand that if she were here and she knew, but...[A shrug.] I still think it's the right thing. I just want to make sure I know what I'm doing before I go back out there and that's part of why I'm here. Plus Nico agrees with me. He went ahead for a few weeks but he said he'd come get me when I'm ready to head back out.